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yeah! i have exactly the same experience, a friend really wanted to see them, we saw them, the crowd was going bananas and it was the shittiest most brown music i ever heard. no wait, that's an insult to the colour brown (which in some shades can be quite natty).
I have the same with the arcade fire and spoon, what the fuck are people finding to enjoy in this trash? can anyone seroiusly tell the difference between spoon and modest mouse?
my suspicion is that those earnest mid-level indie bands where they draw a little too much uncritical inspiration from bruce springsteen are to america what drab whiny mewlers like snow patrol/coldplay/starsailor/athlete/embrace/ etc, etc are to the u.k.
i.e. music that somehow bypasses the ears and simply appeals to people who hate music but respond to the supposed integrity of the bands as some kind of truth in opposition to the percieved lie that is all the overtly marketed and "popular" music which they like to feel they are too sophisticated to fall for.
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